Information Sciences Institute News Stories

ISI Researchers Will Support New Brain Gene Expression Project
Ewa Deelman and Ann Chervenak will be part of a new $9 million research effort headquartered at the Keck School of Medicine at USC

ISI-Headquartered BIRN Launches New Website
The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) has launched a website that highlights its broadened focus, including services for the entire biomedical community and enhanced data-sharing and analysis tools and capabilities.

Versatile R&D Leader Joins ISI to Make Waves ... Help Power California
Gordon Roesler, who came out of the navy to manage a long skein of successful research projects funded by DARPA and other agencies, has come to the USC Information Sciences Institute to establish a Center for Energy Informatics and Systems.

ISD Grad Students Present Research
The ISI Intelligent Systems division held its fourth annual Graduate Student Symposium on October 9, an opportunity for students to practice their writing and presentation skills and for everyone to hear more about their research.

ISI Part of FutureGrid Test Bed
ISI Project Leader Ewa Deelman and her group will participate in an ambitious NSF effort to develop and test novel approaches to parallel, grid, and cloud computing.

ISI Natural Language Experts to Attack Undeciphered Ancient Scripts
The National Science Foundation has awarded Kevin Knight and collaborators $1.6 million to develop computational tools to analyze now-unreadable written texts from antiquity.

Buen Viaje, Cesar
Speeches, tributes, gifts and songs mark a retirement lunch celebrating two decades of accomplishments by MOSIS chief Cesar Pina.

ISI Partners in Intelligence/Security College Training Program
Students attending The University of Texas at El Paso have a path to rewarding careers in the intelligence and national security workforce, thanks to a new cooperative education program created in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute.

ISI Part of $16.4 Million Effort to Build Cognitive Prosthesis
Building on decades of basic research, a team including John Granacki has won a 4-year DARPA grant to restore lost memory function.

Elevating the Science of Cybersecurity
An 8-minute video highlighting the mission and activity of the ISI-headquartered DETERlab Testbed is now online for viewing. It includes interviews with project co-leaders Terry Benzel and John Wroclawski and their funders and collaborators.